Ah yes, Elon Musk, who’s famed for the quality of his tunnels
Remember the trapped miner incident where he called someone a pedo
I think that was a trapped minor incident. The trapped miner incident happened around the same time, but didn’t involve Elon.
So yeah, it was about minors (children) trapped in a cave, not miners (the profession).
But in fairness, the Chilean miners I was thinking of was back in 2010.
Now you can travel from america to russia in only 8 days
If that can keep Elon Musk busy, I’m all for it.
It will involve corruption and graft of your taxpayer money, tho
So business as usual then
What doesn’t?
Its probably a standard Musk project. Show futuristic marketing pictures/videos of round pod-style duturistic vehicles to billionaire oligarchs and clueless politicians with a buzzword salad, until the hype brings in investors. Interest in his companies goes up, the imaginary price of the company goes up, his imaginary gold pile gets bigger.
Then pocket the money and fail miserably delivering even a fraction of the promised things.
The tunnel in Las Vegas, Hyperloop, Cybertruck, Robotaxi (still in progress afaik) Tiny House, the electric freight truck (I don’t remember its name), the various Mars projects just to name a few.
All this does, is convince me that Putin is a moron, too.
Nah, these are loyalty tests by dictators, to prove that they will follow them no matter how crazy the idea is.
He’s not. Trump is old and is feeling the call of the darkness at this point (I’m sure Putin can relate). Trump is looking for legacy. Getting him on board with bullshit like this is designed to nudge him towards being more on Russia’s side, namely when it comes to sanctions and aid for Ukraine.
unless he’s doing it to make the US spend money on nonsense.
Could be neat if Detective Miller engages arthropod-robot form to offer people a ride down said tunnel, all the while reminding riders to check doors and corners.
Can we also have a tunnel dug to the moon?
Personally? By hand? Please?
That will be great when the first earthquake undoes the tunnel
What I expect to happen is he’ll promise it, get funding for it, do a mile of it, drop everything about it, report a higher wealth value, get into a suspicious one car crash
Sounds like it would make Alaska a lot easier for Russia to annex one day…
Sounds like it’d be really easy to drown a whole invasion force really quick.
Surely, Russia of all countries, would understand why it’s a bad idea to invade a region that is cold AF and makes logistics an absolute nightmare. *gestures broadly at WWII*
Of course, this is the same county getting their ass handed to them by Ukraine, a county 100x smaller than they are.
Russia absolutely doesn’t understand that, look at maps over time of the country, their control of Siberia is not as old as you’d think. Vladivostok was ceded to Russia in the mid-late 19th century
He can’t even build one in Vegas…
Given the distance required, what kind of economic payoff could be possible from such an expensive project? It’s not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything. It’s not just the Bering Strait being the problem with connecting the two after all, but the fact that there’s nothing in NE Siberia or NW Alaska to bother connecting together. Are we making it for the polar bears maybe? Or are people going to drive the thousands of miles from Juneau to Vladivostok to sightsee?
To move military equipment.
this is to make the soviet land invasion easier….
Honestly a tunnel to northern Alaska would be an amazing trap for invading armies. There’s just miles of rugged mountains before you even find a road. Then you get to deal with Canada…
oh no, maybe they’ll sick their moose’s on them!
The Soviets had no intention to invade the united states (though they did want us to have a communist revolution, but like that’s just part of communism). This is all capitalist Russia
It’s not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Shipping routes may be cheaper, but I bet they would still be longer. I think it takes the better part of a month to get goods from China to the US. I bet this takes more like a week.
this article article estimates the distance at 8000 miles to the “lower 48”, presumably to Seattle. It proposes high-speed rail service to do the trip in 2 days, but I don’t think that will compete at all with air passenger service . Rather, I think freight traffic will be the real winner, and 7 days is doable at 50 mph the whole way.
Dont forget the 2000 miles of railroad that’d need to be built, much of it over frozen terrain, and a lot of it mountainous. That in itself would be an engineering marvel even before the bridge or tunnel work.
This is “space elevators” levels of unreasonable.
secret invasion route
Honestly, I welcome them putting their army underground in an extremely obvious tunnel, it’s perfectly safe and they should definitely try this
He needs to build a tunnel to life in prison
Truer words have never been spoken.
OK, but it has to be from the east coast going across the Atlantic, and you have to pay for it all.
Most likely there’s a kickback in it for Trump.
